This section is from the book "The Relation Of Food To Health And Premature Death", by Geo. H. Townsend, Felix J. Levy, Geo. Clinton Crandall. Also available from Amazon: Clean Food: A Seasonal Guide to Eating Close to the Source with More Than 200 Recipes for a Healthy and Sustainable You.
This is an eruption of red pimples on the face, that do not readily disappear.
Excess of fats or starch, doughnuts, sausage, fried meat, buckwheat cakes, or griddle cakes, pastry, excess of sugar. All over-rich or indigestible foods are bad and should be left out of the diet; also tea, coffee and alcohol in all forms. Little liquid should be drunk at meal time, but a glass of hot water a half hour before, when practicable, especially before breakfast, and before retiring at night will be beneficial, if not long continued.
 
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